Carson McCullers Quotes
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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I really love Tom Hardy. He makes really interesting choices.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
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The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
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My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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I voted numerous times when I was a Senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.
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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. There was a time when I got hot under the collar if the critics said I had nothing new to say. Now I realise that they had a point. My field is the self-evident. Everything I say is obvious, although I like to think that some of the obvious things I have said were not so obvious until I said them.
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Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.
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I love going to karaoke with friends if I'm having a really tough time.
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I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.
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I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.
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He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.
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A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.
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The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
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The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
